The US Chamber of Commerce has apparently spent too much time watching Mad Men: in a blog post this morning, Chamber blogger Brad Peck called women’s fight for pay equity to be nothing more than a “fetish for money,” and said women complaining about their pay should focus instead on “choosing the right partner at home.” The Chamber’s Peck also approvingly quoted a post that asked, “Should government force gym-man to share his beautiful babes with couch-potato man?”

After deriding labor unions as a “special interest in Washington,” now DSCC Chair Bob Menendez says he expects labor’s “support, you know, financially” in “all of our races across the country.”

Yeah, Chris Matthews went there. On yesterday’s program, Matthews said, likely with a thrill up his leg: “The irony is that the heroine, the Norma Rae last night in Little Rock, was the Democratic Senator labor tried to beat. Norma Rae’s name in this picture is Blanche Lincoln.”

Rush Limbaugh admits unions make mines safe, hold companies accountable. Heads explode nationwide.

Obama tonight said he would not make any recess appointments over the coming recess. Marc Ambinder confirms this includes Craig Becker.